Narrative Text

narrative text

By Sri S.pd

What is narrative text?

Narrative text is a story with complication or problematic events and it tries to find the resolutions to solve the problems.

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An important part of narrative text is the narrative mode, the set of methods used to communicate the narrative through a process narration.

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The Purpose of Narrative Text is to amuse or to entertain the reader with a story.

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​What is the purpose of narrative text?

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What is the Generic Structures of Narrative Text?

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Tells the beginning of the problems which leads to the crisis (climax) of the main participants.

​2. Complication

Sets the scene: where and when the story happened and introduces the participants of the story: who and what is involved in the story.

​1. Orientation

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This is a closing remark to the story and it is optional. It consists  of  a  moral  lesson,  advice  or  teaching  from  the write

​4. Re-Orientation

The problem (the crisis) is resolved, either in a happy ending or in a sad (tragic) ending

​3. Resolution

​Kinds of narrative text

​1. Personal Experience 10. Adventures​

2. Fairy Stories 11. Historical Narrative

3. ​Fables

4. Legends​

5. Myth​

6. Romance​

7. Science Fiction​

8. Mysteries

9. Horror Stories​

• Banyak menggunakan kata penghubung waktu

• Kadang-kadang terdapat dialog langsung antartokoh cerita

• Pola kalimat yang digunakan biasanya berupa Simple Past Tense

• Permulaan kalimat biasanya diawali dengan kata keterangan waktu (Adverbs of Time) seperti long time ago, once, one, once upon a time

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Language Features

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